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SG25 escort (1919/1943)

Les Epargues 1940

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
M(L)6060 (ex-Les Epargues), 1.1944- SG25     A C de la Bretagne, Nantes, France 1918 9.1919 1919 // 5.1943 fire 1.3.1944, never repaired, scuttled 3.8.1944

 

Displacement standard, t

644

Displacement full, t

850

Length, m

72.0 wl 74.9 oa

Breadth, m

8.71

Draught, m

3.20

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 Parsons steam turbines, 2 Normand boilers

Power, h. p.

5000

Max speed, kts

19

Fuel, t

oil 200

Endurance, nm(kts) 3000(11)

Armament

unknown

Complement

100

Project history: Former French 1st class aviso of Amiens class, scuttled at Toulon 27/10./942, salvaged by Germans in December, 1942 and commissioned as minesweeper M6060 5.5.1943. Early 1944 she was converted to fast escort SG25.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: SG25 1.3.1944 was damaged by a fire and never repaired, 3.8.1944 she was again scuttled at Toulon.

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